Friday, November 13, 2015

Compiling Nvidia driver 340.xx for latest kernels

Updates (2015-11-30): Nvidia driver 340.96 seems to fixed the issue. Also, it now works with xserver ABI 20 (x-server 1.18)One of my PCs has openSUSE Tumbleweed installed. The machine has a Nvidia 9300 graphic chip on the motherboard and so I was using the legacy driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.93.After upgrading the kernel to 4.3.x, the Nvidia driver failed to compile. The error is something like this: